Phoenix Rising

The action is non-stop. Excitement and tension drives the book at a cracking, page turning pace. This is Henke at the top of his form. More

Stephen Yorke works for Phoenix, a shadowy organisation specialising in deniable, black operations. When they are attacked and virtually wiped out Yorke turns from being the hunter to the hunted! With his stepson taken hostage, Yorke needs all of his ruthless determination to fight back. Who is he fighting and who can he trust? Pursued across the country, he unravels a web of horror that leads him to the highest echelons of government. He discovers an unlikely ally in Catherine, an investigative journalist who has stumbled into his nightmare. But is she all she appears? To avert disaster Yorke has to track down the most dangerous enemy he has ever faced - an enemy whose power and influence appears limitless. The action is non-stop. Excitement and tension drives the book at a cracking, page turning pace. This is Henke at the top of his form.

Born and raised in the mining valleys of South Wales, my father was a Polish immigrant who came to the UK during the Second World War. I was educated at Pontypridd Boys' Grammar and from an early age had a burning desire to be a Royal Naval officer.After training at Dartmouth Royal Naval College I qualified as a bomb and mine disposal expert, specialising in diving and handling explosives. I led a crack team of underwater bomb disposal specialists and also became the Commanding Officer of various minesweeping and minehunting ships.I survived a machine gun attack by IRA gun runners in Ireland in 1976.Using plastic explosives I was responsible for blowing-up a number of Second World War mines found off the coast of Britain.In the Royal Navy I had the good fortune to work with Prince Charles for a year.